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A closer look at the World Health Organization's prescribing indicators

Richard Ofori-Asenso¹

¹Research Unit, Health Policy Consult, Weija, Accra, Ghana.

Journal of Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics

|April 30, 2016

Abstract:

This communication focuses on the World Health Organization's prescribing indicators. It describes the methods for computing the indicators and highlights their applicability as well as limitations in evaluating the patterns of medicines usage.

Keywords:

Drug use indicators pharmacoepidemiology prescribing indicators

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